ColorsNotebook: Violence, by Fabrica

An analysis of what inspires me in this book: "ColorsNotebook: Violence" by Fabrica (2008).

"The work of Colors is to see how globalization is affecting cultural diversity and changing the world." (p.4)

ColorsNotebook: Violence is a book that brings together images about violence made by people from all around the world.

Colors has sent blank notebooks throughout the world and asked people to write and draw whatever they wanted in them. "Thousands of people like you, yet different from you. A kaleidoscope of faces, temperaments, history and culture". (p.8) Then, they selected 33, which were examples of the diversity.

"They come from France, USA, Hong Kong, Uganda, Brazil, South Africa and elsewhere. They are the work of children, writers, designers, homeless people. They are the image of our world, in the local and global perspective, so particular yet so universal. In short, they remeble us." (p.9)

What most interest me in this project is the fact that "real" people made the work, instead of a view from other towards them.

It is a selected work. They took the best of the material they had. This is what I want in my project. It is very interesting and has a lot of artistic expression even though it is made by people who are not necessarely in the creative industries and maybe that is why it is so interesting and it has a soul. Come direct from people's heart and experience.

Link for the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Colors-Notebook-Violence-Fabrica/dp/376438865X